To be fair, the author's title was *Studying Economic Data Is Not "Doing Economics"*. I made it a question for the post, because I thought that was better for sparking conversation.

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It is a part of it, but not the whole discipline, which means the original question may be faulty, at worst, leading at best. Did the writer mean a part of doing economics? The way the question is written leaves if fair to conclude they meant all. To that the answer would be no.

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Is Studying Economic Data "Doing Economics"?

It is a part of it, but not the whole discipline, which means the original question may be faulty, at worst, leading at best. Did the writer mean a part of doing economics? The way the question is written leaves if fair to conclude they meant all. To that the answer would be no. 